Bloatware AmigaOS?

[itix]

Is AmigaOS really mean and lean because of its design philosophy or is it more to do with its situation?

Kickstart 3.1 was shipped with six DD floppies and you could boot to full Workbench from single floppy. It ran on an Amiga 500 (68000/7MHz) with 1MB RAM. Try this with HP's OS 3.5 or 3.9!

Today we could not imagine MorphOS or OS4 running with so little.

[itix]

Exactly. Phase5 by not using custom logic was forced to pay far more per-board than if they had ASIC'd the parts together, to reduce the overall cost of production. That is why the VIC-20 could price-undercut the TI-99A so much, Commodore custom-made the chips, resulting in lower cost to produce. Yes, the R&D and initial cost is higher, but the end-price is far lower.

Too bad this scheme did not continue on Amiga series. I wonder why Commodore was selling Amiga 1000 with such insane price tag.

[itix]

Too bad this scheme did not continue on Amiga series. I wonder why Commodore was selling Amiga 1000 with such insane price tag.

Hrm? $1000 for a machine that beat $4000 workstations, graphically?

Amiga 1000 sales were struggling while cheaper (yet still expensive but technically inferior) Atari ST was selling like hot cakes here in Europe. Consumers simply could not afford an Amiga 1000.
 
But of course they got it finally right and inexpensive Amiga 500 made Amiga successful. I just wonder why it did not happen with Amiga 1000 when they are based on the same chipset.